On the show this week:
- Learning To Fail
- Apocalypse How?
- Future Toys
- Future Imperfect
CQ: What would you do if you thought that existence was about to end in 5 minutes?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
- Learning To Fail:
- Something ironic about this, but I don’t know what..: BBC – The man who studies the spread of ignorance
- Are we all in this together?: Scientific American – Is Consciousness Universal?
- How do we take the world into ourselves?: Scientific American – Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own?
- Sprachen-ze science?: The BBC – Does the rise of English mean losing knowledge?
- Idolatry as lesson, but can we pass the test?: The Washington Post – What Easter Island’s colossal stone statues teach about the dangers of modern school reform
- Apocalypse How?:
- If only they had the gall to actually call it that!: The UK Mirror – NASA opens ‘Office of the Apocalypse’ to tackle looming threat of doomsday asteroids
- (EXTRA) You’ve got better odds of this than the Powerball, I think..: The UK Express – Yellowstone about to blow? Scientists warning over SUPER-VOLCANO that could kill MILLIONS
- (EXTRA) As if getting on boots wasn’t hard enough sometimes!: Sky News – (O) Humans Of The Future ‘Could Grow Webbed Feet’
- (EXTRA) Crisis averted! Way to go, humans! It looked bad for a while there, and… WAIT A MINUTE..: The Washington Post – (O) Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age
- Future Toys:
- (EXTRA) And yet: we still can’t have IOS apps run on Android and vice versa..: Mental Floss – These Adapters Let You Combine All Your Toys Into One Monstrous Conglomeration of Fun
- (EXTRA) I’m sure they also paid more for the privilege, too..: National Geographic – (O) These Praying Mantises Wear Tiny 3-D Glasses-For Science
- (EXTRA) Still to test: how to not make the squishy things inside the canisters go “squish”. Oh: and everything else.: Popular Mechanics – (O) The First Pieces of the Hyperloop Test Track Are Ready for Assembly
- (EXTRA) We are seeking new ways to pleasure ourselves..: LiveScience – Sex Toys & Coffee Art: Obscure (and Fascinating) Tech Takes Over CES 2016
- (EXTRA) Speaking of adapters.. Or is the second (third?) wave of “true” humanoid robotics to be led by the sex industry?: The UK Daily Mirror – (O) Sex robots could be ‘biggest trend of 2016′ as more lonely humans seek mechanical companions
- (EXTRA) The phrase “just because I can” comes to mind..: LiveScience – Asteroid-Mining Company 3D-Prints Object from Space Rock Metals
- (EXTRA) This could revolutionize ice-scraping mornings..: Phys.org – (O) Material could harvest sunlight by day, release heat on demand hours or days later
- Future Imperfect:
- (EXTRA) Also: the perfect way to start an argument about who got the last mushroom on the pizza.: Tech Times – This Is The Perfect Way To Slice Pizza, According To Mathematicians
- (EXTRA) Sometimes you need to shed (corporial) baggage to make a fresh start.: JimHarold.com – Apparitions: On Moving Toward a Better Theory of Ghosts — Micah Hanks Reports
- (EXTRA) I believe this is what an RPG session looks like from the in-world NPC point of view..: CNS News – Police: Man tells nanny she’s pushing dead baby, follows her
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